WOW... This is def. not good for the conference. Are their any other teams in the region looking for a football conference? Is it to late for teams to find other opponents for their open dates, or will they only play 7 or 8 games? How many teams have to be in the conference for an auto? Hopefully the SLIAC can figure something out.

BC football:
Is there going to be a write-up anywhere about the college cancelling the football program? I hope they rethink this idea so your players have an opportunity to play.

My high school was a small 1A school and cancelled our program for two years my junior year. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise as I transfered to a private school to play my senior year, where I had a break out year and met life long friends. So if Blackburn does cancell football, hopefully some good will come out of it for your players, like it did for me.

Does anyone know if there is any penalty (time that you must sit out) if you transfer D3 to D3. I know you can't transfer up to D2 or D1 without a penalty but I don't know about D3 to D3, and if so, would the NCAA make an exception because of the situation? 

What do I know:
That is a pretty fitting name since you seem to know everything about Eureka College and Kurt Barth, but let me tell you what I KNOW!!!!

What I know is that Dan Sullivan (EC's former coach) took over a team that had all of it's talent returning from a competitive 3-7 squad.
-Then proceeded to run off half of the players with his arrogance and his "I'm the head Coach not your friend attitude!"
-A team that had 75 players returned the following year with 39!!!!!
We went 1-9
-Then we went 0-10.
-Then the Head Coach of a College football program, would get onto this website under many names "Touchdown Jesus" for one and run his mouth!
-Then the President of the College fired the AD because she did not have the "heart" to fire Sullivan, and it took the new AD 3 games to get the job done and thats a fact!
*So as I said before the Red Devil community is excited to have Kurt Barth return home.

*And it is pretty hard to get coach to an 8-22 record in one season under a coach, O and Sullivan 3-27 in his first 3 years!!! wow

I think Kurt is a great fit for the Red Devils. I played one year under Kurt when he was the OC at Eureka and he is a great motivater. He has the support of the college behind him, which is a lot more than the last Coach had. Also, regarding his high school coaching record. Kurt got his foot in the door by taking a job at a high school that is best known for cross country running!!! They were coming off a 1 or 2 win season and had just been placed into a conference that has produced State Championship appearing teams 4 of the last 8 years, and Kurt got his team into the playoffs!!!
Only time will tell, but Kurt Barth goes hand in hand with Red Devil football and a lot of people are happy he is back home!!!!!

Man, thats really classy of Mr. Coleman to take cheap shots at a team trying to fight through adversity. "It's a reality check" Did anyone, anywhere say anything that promoted Principia as an elite program? Eureka is a small school (500 or so), and have been playing schools twice, or even three times bigger than they are for years. Now they are competeing in a conference that has schools with comparable enrollments and facilities, and are hanging tough. O, but don't worry, Mr. Coleman will make sure and put them in their place, and not let them have anything to hang their hats on!
*Keep working hard red devils, and play your a**es off this week for homecoming and give alumns a reason to dig into their pockets for you!

Getting back to the Eureka Coach "resigning." It is pretty well known that he was asked to step down by the college. There is a lot of speculation on why he got let go during the middle of the season. I do not believe it had much to do with his family issues. It is hard to say eureka was turning the corner with him when he inheritated a 3-7 team with a lot of talent coming back, and has compiled a record of 5-30, never beating a team that had won more than 2 games during their season. Having played for Coach Sullivan, he did work hard and he wanted the college to do well, but he has an arrogance that did not sit well with many players and more importantly coaching staff and faculty.
As for the Red Devils, Good luck today. Bring a big win home for your family while adversity stares you in the face!!!

p.s. Rumors of a former Red Devil, and D-3 legend waiting in the mist to take the helm!!!!!!